This is for the Insensitive, Ignorant, Healthy Members of the Human Race: It’s the fourth day of the new year, and already I’ve received more than my share of unnecessary comments from people who know I have a gastro disease & arthritis, but love to remain ignorant to the fact that…
Tag: Crohn’s
Dinner Party
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Tricky Mashed Potatoes
Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!!! I’m sure half of you are in the kitchen and half are trying to figure out how to get through the day. Big holidays are always so tricky for us with chronic digestive issues and those of us with younger children who only want to eat cornbread…
Crohn's & Colitis
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Trick O’ Treat!
Ahh, yes! Halloween! Hippo’s favorite holiday!…well, one of his favorite holidays….actually every holiday is Hippo’s favorite holiday because creole people love to celebrate everything with food! And since I’ve spent the last 14 years having a love/hate relationship with food, holidays are touch n’ go. It seems my anxiety is…
Body Over Mind
Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night in complete pain and think, this just can’t be right. No one person can possibly be in this much pain at one time…sometimes for days on end. The day before yesterday my feet began to swell after spending a…
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HealTheVoices
Last week I had the pleasure to be invited by Janssen to participate in their HealtheVoices Conference 2015. I spent three days with 65 other patients and advocates of a variety of diseases like Diabetes, AIDS, MS, Cancer and many others. I also had the amazing blessing of being able to…
Thanks A Lot, CDC!
This past Tuesday marked the third anniversary of my colon removal. The day that I received my Ostomy. The day that saved my life. I no longer have an Ostomy, but I am forever indebted to my Ostomy for allowing me to enjoy the past three years with my family…